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Tom Eastep 6be802aa7c Update the Shorewall 4 article
Signed-off-by: Tom Eastep <teastep@shorewall.net>
2015-06-08 09:46:51 -07:00

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<title>Shorewall Version 4</title>
<authorgroup>
<author>
<firstname>Tom</firstname>
<surname>Eastep</surname>
</author>
</authorgroup>
<pubdate><?dbtimestamp format="Y/m/d"?></pubdate>
<copyright>
<year>2007</year>
<year>2009</year>
<year>2015</year>
<holder>Thomas M. Eastep</holder>
</copyright>
<legalnotice>
<para>Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this
document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version
1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with
no Invariant Sections, with no Front-Cover, and with no Back-Cover
Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled
<quote><ulink url="GnuCopyright.htm">GNU Free Documentation
License</ulink></quote>.</para>
</legalnotice>
</articleinfo>
<section id="Intro">
<title>Introduction</title>
<para>Shorewall version 4.0 represented a substantial shift in direction
for Shorewall. Up until then</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>Shorewall had been written entirely in Bourne Shell.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Shorewall had run the <command>iptables</command> utility to add
each Netfilter rule.</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
<para>Shorewall version 4.0 offered you a choice. You could continue to
use the existing shell-based implementation or you could use a new
implementation of the Shorewall compiler written in the Perl programming
language. The new compiler:</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>had a small disk footprint</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>was very fast.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>generateed a firewall script that uses
<command>iptables-restore</command>; so the script was very
fast.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>generated better and more consistent error messages.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>did a much more thorough job of checking the configuration to
avoid run-time errors.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>supported creating either Ipv4 or Ipv6 firewalls (Shorewall
4.2.4 and later).</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
<para><ulink url="Shorewall-perl.html#Install">Both compilers could be
installed on your system</ulink> and you could <ulink
url="Shorewall-perl.html#CompilerSelection">use whichever one suited you
in a particular case</ulink>.</para>
</section>
<section id="Install">
<title>Shorewall 4.4</title>
<para>Shorewall 4.4 discontinued the availability of the legacy
shell-based compiler. All users must migrate to the perl-based compiler
before or during an upgrade to Shorewall version 4.4 or later. We highly
recommend that current users of the shell-based compiler migrate before
upgrading to 4.4 or later so that both compilers are available during the
migration.</para>
<para>Shorewall 4.4 contains five packages:</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para><emphasis role="bold">Shorewall</emphasis> - Everything needed
to create an IPv4 firewall.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para><emphasis role="bold">Shorewall-lite</emphasis>- Can run scripts
generated by Shorewall on another system.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para><emphasis role="bold">Shorewall6</emphasis> - The utilities for
creating and operating an Ipv6 firewall. Requires Shorewall.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para><emphasis role="bold">Shorewall6-lite</emphasis> - Ipv6
equivalent of Shorewall Lite. Can run scripts generated by Shoreall on
another system.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para><emphasis role="bold">Shorewall-init</emphasis> - An add-on
package for any of the other packages which can:</para>
<orderedlist>
<listitem>
<para>Secure the firewall(s) prior to bringing up the interfaces
(does not work with systems running Upstart)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>React to ifup/ifdown events and restart the firewall(s) if
needed</para>
</listitem>
</orderedlist>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</section>
<section>
<title>Shorewall 4.5/4.6</title>
<para>Shorewall 4.5 added an additional <emphasis
role="bold">Shorewall-core</emphasis> package. This package contains the
core Shorewall shell libraries that are required by the other
packages.</para>
</section>
<section id="Prereqs">
<title>Prerequisites for using the Shorewall Version 4.2/4.4/4.5/4.6
Perl-based Compiler</title>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>Perl (I use Perl 5.14.2 but other 5.8 or later versions should
work fine). <note>
<para>If you want to be able to use DNS names in your Shorewall6
configuration files, then Perl 5.10 or later is required together
with the Perl <emphasis role="bold">Socket6</emphasis>
module.</para>
</note></para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Perl <emphasis role="bold">Cwd</emphasis> Module</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Perl <emphasis role="bold">File::Basename</emphasis>
Module</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Perl <emphasis role="bold">File::Temp</emphasis> Module</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Perl <emphasis role="bold">Getopt::Long</emphasis> Module</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Perl <emphasis role="bold">Carp</emphasis> Module</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Perl <emphasis role="bold">FindBin</emphasis> Module</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Perl <emphasis role="bold">Scalar::Util </emphasis>Module</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Perl <emphasis role="bold">Digest::SHA1</emphasis> Module
(Shorewall 4.5 only)</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
<para>Please note that there are <ulink url="IPv6Support.html">additional
requirements</ulink> if you plan to install and use Shorewall6.</para>
</section>
<section id="Incompatibilities">
<title>Incompatibilities Introduced in the Shorewall Version 4 Perl-based
Compiler</title>
<para>The Shorewall Perl-based compiler is not 100% compatible with the
Shorewall shell-based version. See <ulink url="Shorewall-perl.html">this
document</ulink> for details.</para>
</section>
</article>